Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-08-03

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! NORTHWEsTERNN NEWS.
Minneapolis, MIMI, was the theatre
OF two extensive fires on the 26th. The first
was in the 4-story Warner block, on
Nicollet avenue. occupied by q number Of
tenants, including stores, offices, the Ameri
can can District Telegraph and a bakery, IN an
apartment OF which fire broke out at 9 a.
M, The total damage sustained by the ten.
ants is $4,000, and to the building &C. 600, ali
duily insured. During. the progress Of the
hre nine fireman were injured, by the falling
OF cnimneys upon group of that number
Wniie at work, the men sustaining various
bruises. scalp wounds and broken ribs, but
no fatal hurt. At nine o'clock in the even
ing ire broke out in the Dorillus Morrison
DlOck on Washington avenue, occupied on
inc t1rst floor by the Big Boston clothing
nc mouse and the second and other floors by
thesFranklln Bazaar. For a time the fire was
uncomfortable and burned down from the
lth TO the third. floor where it was stopped.
| IN either side of the Morrison block were
t9e Morse building and National Hotel, both
~ ~ Wnlch were damaged by fire and water.
~ aMe tosaI OF losses is estimated from $500,
wv 10 $S3O,OOV, with total insurance of
ABOUT $4,000. The firemen worked well
ana mad II streams Of water playing upon
the burning premises at the same time and
IN an hour and half had it under control
ana oy midnight it was entirely subdued.
The ship A. G. Ropes sailed for
Yohahama on July 26 with $4,000 packages
OF tea consigned to the Northern Pacific at
So H.
about 4,25O,00O pounds of tea. This
quantity Is fOur-ffths as much as all the tea
handled by the Canadian Pacific last year,
and more than came over the Northern
Pacific the whole of last season. The
shipped to st. Paul, Chicago, New York
ana Canadian cities, a very large quantity
being for P. B. Kelly Mercantile company
OF st. Paul, MINI.
Col. Tyner, adjutant general of
Dakota, has located the encampment of the
Dakota National Guard in Huron to be beld
from the list to the 6th Of September.
Cooked ratisns will be issued, and tar
get range established with prizes to the best
marksmen. Before the encampment all the
troops will be armed with the best Spring
field rifle, and the territory will also have
two new brass field pieces, both of which
will be used.
CHICAGO, July 28.-Information re-
ceived here to-day leaves no doubt that
freight rates in the through business
between Chicago and st. Paul will be
slashed by the new line of the Minnesota
q Northern, which will be open Monday.
The reductions will average from 80 or 40
per cent. all round. The officials of the
oid lines say they will meet any cut made.
Milwaukee special: John Burnham,
an old and widely known citizen, was
brought home Sunday from Grand Rapids
on boat, badly injured. While in bed in
q Grand Rapids hotel he dreamt that he was
on board steamer which had taken fire,
He jumped from his bed and out of the
window. He fell on a projecting roof which
broke his fall, but he was badly injured.
John Stuart. of Fourmile township,
Iowa, brought home some corn meal. AS it
was little late his wife concluded she
wouldn't bake bread for supper and told
him to give the chickens a feed out of it,
He did SO and the following morning he
gathered up forty three dead chickens. 1t
Is not known what was in the meal, but the
matter will be looked into.
The committee appointed by the G.
A. r. of Wisconsin to select site for the
new home, to be known as the Wisconsin
Veterans home, have selected the one Of
fered by the people of Waupaca. The
chosen is at the chain of la6es
three miles west of Waupaca, and is known
as Greenwood Park. Possession will be
given Sept. 1.
ST. PETER, July 26-The first new
wheat was marketed yesterday. 1t graded
No. ! northern, good quality. It came
from the sand prairie. The yield was
about IA bushels to the acre. The weather
is very dry and corn is suffering from want
of rain. Potatoes will also be a light
crop.
A street car driver was shot dead at
II 80 p. m, Tuesday at the Lake street
turn in his car for the night. His cash box,
supposed to contain 5000 was stolen. The
man was struck by two shots and
was found dead on the platform of his car:
H. A. Jewett and Seymour Hollister
of Oshkosh, Wis, have contracted for a
tract of land near Sault Ste Marie contain
ing z, 600 goo feet OF pine, for which they will
pay S150,OoO The money is to be furnished
by Senator Sawyer. The pine is to be
sawed and shipped to Canadian points.
IL is TepOrCeu tnal Vuuam mcintosh
of Huron, OAK, who has been master me.
chanic of that division of the Northwestern
for nearly seven years, has been appointed
master mechanic of all the Northwestern
lines west of Winona to the Missouri, with
headquarters at Winona, MINI.
Dubuque, Ia, despatch Goth: A
party OF several persons from Hazel Green,
Wis, arrived to-day to camp out a few
weeks on the banks of the Mississippi river
few miles south Of Galena, at . point
known as the junction. This afternoon
Walter Hobbie, Clint Thomas and John
81. Thomas, members of the party, went in
bathing in a dangerous hole kuown as the
whirlpool, and were drowned. The bodies
were not recovered up to a late hour.
At Milwaukee, Wis, Monday even
ing William Schmidt, better known as ssBil-
ly Smith, }" in former years a travelling sales
man for Marshall, Field & Co., committed
o,.joi1o INV chootiror him IN, tho hooA To-